Running your home’s air conditioner or heater is typically your biggest energy expense. Guess what comes in second? Your unassuming, not-often-thought-about water heater. It can account for up to 20 percent of your energy bill – ouch, that burns! Instead of watching money literally go down the drain, our energy experts recommend that you fix leaks, install low-flow fixtures, insulate accessible hot water lines, and purchase an ENERGY STAR-certified dishwasher…
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Tips And Reminders To Help You Stay Scam Aware
It can happen to anyone, at any time, in any way. Someone calls or knocks on your door — impersonating a Tampa Electric representative and tells you that your electric bill is past due. They demand that you buy a prepaid debit card from a local drug or convenience store and call them back with the card number to avoid disconnection of your service. It may sound convincing, but it’s…
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Eight quick tips to save money on your home office electricity
Working from home has obvious benefits. But it can also increase your home’s energy costs. Beyond adjusting your heating and cooling throughout the day, you probably have computers, monitors, printers, additional lighting and more. The cost of using all that office equipment can add up. To help, our energy experts compiled a list of money-saving tips: LED Task Lighting: A desk lamp with LED bulbs uses less energy than whole-room…
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Top 10 ways to save energy and money
It’s 2022 – do you know where your energy is being wasted? For the new year, we asked the energy experts at Tampa Electric for their biggest and best money-saving tips. Here’s what they said: 1. Adjust your day-to-day behaviors Saving energy can be as simple as turning off lights and appliances not being used. For more savings, turn down your thermostat in the winter (68 degrees Fahrenheit or lower)…
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Tapping the sun and battery technology to light up the night
Our lighting team recently installed 175 new streetlights in Creek Preserve, a new housing development in Wimauma. But these are no ordinary streetlights. Each light is equipped with a solar panel and a battery. The solar panel makes energy during the day that’s stored in the battery to illuminate the light at night. What happens if cloud cover occurs several days in a row? No problem, the battery stores enough…
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